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East Ridge Trail – Joaquin Miller Park loop from Castro Valley

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East Ridge Trail – Joaquin Miller Park loop from Castro Valley

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East Ridge Trail – Joaquin Miller Park loop from Castro Valley

05:25

52.4km

1,300m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 6, 2026

Tips

Includes a segment in which cycling is not permitted

After 3.68 km for 71 m

Waypoints

Start point

Bus stop

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3.85 km

Live Oak Trail🌲 Anthony Chabot Regional Park

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Following a brief section of Towhee Trail descending from Brandon Skyline Trail ( komoot.de/highlight/215613 ), Live Oak Trail provides the connection for the Lake Chabot Bike Loop to the East Shore Trail. At the boundary with Lake Chabot Regional Park it crosses often-flooded San Leandro Creek with a long Bridge Walk ( komoot.de/highlight/215615 ). For a large loop through the Oakland Hills, see komoot.de/tour/14468615

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5.71 km

Brandon Trail (Anthony Chabot Regional Park)

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Brandon Trail starts several miles further north along the Western bank of Grass Valley Creek. This tracked segment begins about midway where it becomes part of the Lake Chabot Bicycle Loop, rising mildy south toward the intersection with Redtail Trail and Towhee Trail.

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13.4 km

MacDonald Trail (Chabot Regional Park)

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

MacDonald Trail leads roughly North-South from the southern end of Redwood Regional Park along the center spine of Anthony Chabot Regional Park, a regional park in Oakland, California. It covers 5,067 acres in the San Leandro Hills adjacent to Oakland, San Leandro and Castro Valley. It is part of the East Bay Regional Park District system south of Redwood Regional Park, which contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood found in the East Bay, and other evergreens, chaparral, and grasslands. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Chabot_Regional_Park , ebparks.org/parks/anthony_chabot
MacDonald is part of a mountain bike loop around both parks komoot.de/tour/14468615

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19.2 km

Canyon Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

When you park at Redwood Road Trailhead and use Canyon Trail as an uphill on your loop, then it is not a piece of cake because Canyon Trail is quite steep at some points.

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20.4 km

East Ridge Trail

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

East ridge runs the length of Redwood Regional Park from Skyline Gate to the border with Chabot Regional Park to the south, offering great views both East into the forested hills above Moraga and the Upper San Leadro Reservoir, as well as west into the park. It is a park of the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) in the San Francisco Bay Area in the hills east of Oakland. The 1,830 acre park contains the largest remaining natural stand of coast redwood found in the East Bay, and other evergreens, chaparral, and grasslands. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood_Regional_Park
ebparks.org/parks/redwood , Part of loop hikes such as komoot.de/tour/7530482 and mountain bike loops such as komoot.de/tour/14468615

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22.6 km

East Ridge Overlook

Highlight • Viewpoint

Spectacular location for a park bench, inviting for taking a break, in a clearing overlooking the entire valley, filled with towering redwoods.

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29.6 km

Joaquin Miller Park

Highlight • MTB Park

Oakland's favorite park for mountain bikers is criss-crossed by some of the sweetest single trails in the East Bay

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40.4 km

Grass Valley Trail (Anthony Chabot Regional Park)

Highlight (Segment) • Trail

Grass Valley trail follows the lush meadows along Grass Valley Creek from its origin at Parkridge in Anthony Chabot Regional Park south to the intersection with Brandon Trail. This recorded segment of the trail picks up the trail about mid-way at Bort Meadows where gates indicate an active use as a grazing area possibly leased out by the park for vegetation management, or grandfathered in by a previous owner of a farm incorporated into the park.

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52.4 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

23.8 km

16.4 km

8.55 km

1.96 km

1.62 km

142 m

Surfaces

31.1 km

14.1 km

5.73 km

767 m

646 m

107 m

< 100 m

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Highest point (450 m)

Lowest point (70 m)

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East Ridge Trail – Joaquin Miller Park loop from Castro Valley

Live Oak Trail🌲 Anthony Chabot Regional Park

Brandon Trail (Anthony Chabot Regional Park)

MacDonald Trail (Chabot Regional Park)

Canyon Trail

East Ridge Trail

East Ridge Overlook

Joaquin Miller Park

Grass Valley Trail (Anthony Chabot Regional Park)

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